Since the author is faculty at a university in Yunnan, I'm hoping for more realistic details than from someone traveling there briefly with interpreters to add local color to work written mostly elsewhere. Bought it.

Puerlife wrote:That's the title of a new pu-erh book I've just put in my Amazon shopping cart. Better yet are the free accompanying videos:http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/Zhang_PUER_TEA_videos.html

Thanks for sharing this! I just ordered it on Amazon together with The Japanese Tea Garden.